Big Chain May Buy Provincial House
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Joa nnAsher BettyBall MaryDamm Dale Damm 0 Mike Eliasohn Melva Guinther Dorothy Haire John Haire Linda Leeson Dwight Loeding Carol Rutkoski 9 Bev Schelke e Sharon Vandenbossche and C‘orrespondents CASS CITY CHRONICLE VOLUME 75, NUMBER 36 CASS CITY,MICHIGAN -WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1981 Twenty -f ive Cents SECTION 1 TWENTY-SIX PAGES Big chain may buy Provincial House 13y Mike Eliasohn having changed its goals, iencies will haw to be of care.” wants to expand in other corrected by the new own- Sale of 24 Provincial Its executive director, health areas. ers. Susan Rourke, told the De- House nursing homes, in- William Wright, a Beverly Regional health systems troit News that Beverly’s ’ cluding the one in Cass City, senior vice-president, told agencies must also act on ill nut affect the residents overall record in Michigan is the Detroit News that the the request, but their recorn- about the same as Provin- ir the staff, according to of- squeeze in health care funds mendations can be over- ‘icials of the company. cial House’s, considered favors multi-state operators turned by the health depart- “fairly decent.” Michigan’s largest nurs- who can offer advantages in ment. ng home chain has applied. efficiency. He ‘denied that Such approyafs +can take Beverb. already operates o the Michigan Department meant the “McDonaldiza- anywhere from 45 days to 14 homes in Michigan. There If Public Health to sell all of tion” of care for the elderly. six months, Hicks said, but have been severe problems ts homes to Beverly Enter- YUHC’IIASE OF THE his division is working as at two of them. Problems at wises of Pasadena, Calif., nursing homes, as men- fast as possible to complete the one in Petoskey have he nation’s biggest such tioned, must be approved by its review. been corrected, while those ’irm. It owns 455 long term the health department. Be- Provincial and Beverly in Pontiac, where decertifi- :are facilities in 27 states, fore its director makes a have said they would like to cation was threatened in according to the depart- final decision, according to make the change in owner- August, are being corrected, nent. Bob Hicks, assistant chief of ship in January. according to the company. The total sale price has its planning and construc- healthALTHOUGH department makesTHE Some Beverly facilities in wen reported to be $54 tion division, such informa- other states have been fined nillion. The price for the tion as financial data and the decision, Hicks said, the or lost their license because :ass City Provincial House, whether there are any pres- public can make its com- of substandard care, but he health department said, ent deficiencies are being ments known to either it or health officials say the qual- is approximately $2,182,000. reviewed. the regional health agencies. ity varies. Some are excel- NATIVITY SCENE -- Youth from the Shabbona, Decker and Elmer United “It (the sale) will not The former includes Michigan Citizens for Bet- are “aging Methodist Churches are presenting this live nativity scene from 6-9 p.m. affect the residents in the whether the change in own- ter Care, a consumer group, warehouses.lent and some ” (Cass City) facility or the ership would be cost effec- is urging health planners to The proposed sale is being through Wednesday on M-53, 31k2 miles south of M-81. Not shown are the live staff, Provincial House re- tive and whether the pur- require proof Beverly will divisionreviewed of bythe the U.S. anti-trust Justice mule and sheep that are also part of the display. gional manager Connie chaser can handle it finan- “achieve economies of scale Schwaderer told the Chron- cially. Any licensing defic- without sacrificing quality Department. icle.Even the name will stay the same, she said. cause The local Provincial Slippety roads House has beds and 117 100 -nY employees. The new owners, accord- ing to Helen Wentz, Provin- cial House assistant vice- accidents Thursday, Friday president of corporate rela- tions, have to comply with the same state-imposed staff Snow and ice covered lish Road, Kingston, west- road on an icy section and southwest of Caro, when her car crossed the centerline requirements as does Pro- roads resulted in numerous bound on M-46,was waiting lost contrd. His auto slid off vincial House. It cannot accidents recently, most last for traffic to clear before the north side of the road and hit the left front of the into a ditch and hit a fence. oncoming car of Robert N. make a wholesale reduction Thursday and Friday. turning left onto English, in number of employees. At 3:40 p.m. Thursday, Allen, 51, of Caro. Deputies repo’rted that when a vehicle ran into the There will be some minor rear of her car. Cass City police reported, Timothy A. Severance, 20, of She told troopers the ve- changes, “It’s not a matter 6419 Severance Road, Deck- Driver of the other ve- Leona M. Eberline, 56, of 6378 Garfield Street, was hicle in front of her was of radical change in serv- er, was eastbound on Sever- hicle, Hugh R. Milligan, 40, ices.” of Caro, was ticketed on a westbound on ‘Pine Street. slowing and when she hit her mce, east of Cemetery, at brakes, her car swerved to The Lansing-based Pro- 11:lS pm. Dec. 14. charge of unable to stop She tried to stop at West Street, but her car slid into the left. vincial House, Inc., she His car spun around and , within an assured clear dis- pointed out, isn’t going out of went off the north side of the tance. the intersection and hit the Cass City police reported a northbound auto of Betty business. It will continue to road. It came to a halt in a Fifteen minutes later, hit and run vehicle struck operate in such health areas ditch, facing west. Caro state police reported Ann Kociba, 27, of 6328 Pine. the car of Clarence Vining of At 3:50 p.m. that day, as health maintenance, Severance, who refused that Norman A. Laverge, 44, 5164 Shabbona Road, Deck- home health and computer medical treatment, was of Utica, was eastbound on Charity Ann Carolan, 20, of er, at 11:ZO a.m. last Thurs- Cemetery Road, Kings- services. ticketed on a charge of speed Deckerville Road, west of 4180 day e THE FIRM ton, was southbound on OPERATES too fast for conditions. Murray Road, when his car Vining’s auto was parked only in Michigan, Ms. Wentz At 2:15 p.m. Thursday, Cemetery, south of Denhoff went off the south shoulder along the south drive of Cass explained, and one reason deputies said, Shirley Ann of the road. Road, when she lost control of her according to City High School. for its getting out of the -;oehler, 47, of 3850 S. Eng- He steered back onto the car, nursing home business is deputies. Betty MiRetherford, 60,of Her auto went off the east the poor state of the Mich- 4646 Hunt Street, was tick- igan economy. side of the road toward a eted by village police on a ditch and rolled over. One result has been a 0k a u rc has e charge of failure to stop in sharp cut in Medicaid pay- Patricia E. Zinnecker, 34, an assured clear distance ments, funded by the state of 5839 Main Street, Deford, ahead after a mishap at 6:30 sought own treatment and federal governments for her a.m. Friday. poor and chronically ill per- after 6:30 p.m. accident a sons. Provincial receives of new tanker Thursday, They said she was pulling Deputies said she was away from a parking place Medicaid reimbursement on the south side of Main fordents 70 . percent of its resi- The Elkland Township 14 meeting. A few changes northbound on Cemetery, Street, 200 feet west of Board has decided to buy a were made in the one or- south of Kelly Road, and lost dered, to slightly reduce the control of her car, which Seeger, and ran into a With Beverly operating in .ew tanker for the fire Schafer Bakeries delivery so many states, it won’t department. cost from what was original- went into a deep ditch along ly presented. truck parked in front of her. suffer as greatly because of It will cost $24,423, not the east side of the road. poor economic conditions in The board at its meeting including the tank, with At 6:30p.m. that day, Iva one state. delivery fcheduied in authorized members Art OTHER ACCIDENTS Mae Hildinger, 54, of 4394 Randall and Merchant to Provincial House could March, according to town- AI Oak Street, backed into the have survived in the nursing check the specifications Sharon Allen, 38, 6787 ship clerk Carol Ware. The of parked car of Wendel Har- home business, she contin- further and a Third Cass City, was tank will be installed after make recom- Street, mon of 4400 Leslie Road, ued, but it was getting delivery. mendation. That was done, ticketed by Caro state police Decker, which was parked UIRISrl’MAS GREETING -- Carlie from Cass City was one of izv the recommendation was on a charge of driving left of harder to meet government The new Ford chassis is in the Provincial House lot, standards. High1,and Pines School students to be greeted by Santa Claus at the loth favorable and board mem- center following a 2:45 p.m. being ordered from Geiger- but not in a marked parking Also, she said Beverly atiiiual party last Wednesday at the Cass Theatre for handicapped Hunt Ford.